Re: Ethernet RX overruns and dropped packets

2018-05-25 Thread Roger Heflin
You may want to install sysstat (sar) and look at the rates by doing sar -n EDEV and sar -n DEV to compare the drops vs packets.In my experience on critical production systems if the rate is less than 1 (drop/error/...) per 10,000 packets then in general you won't see a performance impact. Th

Re: Ethernet RX overruns and dropped packets

2018-05-25 Thread Thomas Dineen
Could be a defective ethernet card. Try replacing. On 5/25/2018 9:22 AM, Alex wrote: Hi, On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 11:24 AM, Thomas Dineen wrote: Trivial answer: Slow Server drops packets. It takes a lot of server horse power to process a 1GB wire speed flow of packets. The link isn't always

Re: Ethernet RX overruns and dropped packets

2018-05-25 Thread Alex
Hi, On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 11:24 AM, Thomas Dineen wrote: > Trivial answer: Slow Server drops packets. It takes a lot of server horse > power > > to process a 1GB wire speed flow of packets. The link isn't always saturated when it happens. On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 3:38 AM, Silvia Sánchez wrote

Re: Ethernet RX overruns and dropped packets

2018-05-25 Thread Thomas Dineen
Alex: Trivial answer: Slow Server drops packets. It takes a lot of server horse power to process a 1GB wire speed flow of packets. Thomas Dineen On 5/24/2018 6:43 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, Can someone explain why an interface would start showing dropped packets and overruns? I have about six ma

Re: Ethernet RX overruns and dropped packets

2018-05-25 Thread Silvia Sánchez
Hi, F25 is deprecated. You should upgrade to F27 at least. The current stable version of Fedora is 28. Besides that, did you check is not a problem from your provider? Time ago I had a lot of packet dropping and after weeks kicking everything I found out it was my ISP's fault. Another thing I w

Ethernet RX overruns and dropped packets

2018-05-24 Thread Alex
Hi, Can someone explain why an interface would start showing dropped packets and overruns? I have about six machines on a local LAN (the IP is associated with the br0 device), and all have at least some amount of dropped packets. This is one example from one of the machines on the LAN; the LAN int